Cloning a Drive
Monday, February 24, 2020
One of the things you have to live with being a technologist is that you inevitably do tech support for family. My recent vacation to the Pacific Northwest was no exception. This time my aunt’s computer was out of disk space. We ordered a new 250GB Crucial M.2 drive to replace the existing 32GB eMMC drive that was in her computer. Easy right? Just open the computer, slap the new drive in it, copy the contents from the old drive to the new drive and then resize the partition.…
OCZ Vertex 2 SSD
Sunday, December 5, 2010
“All developers should have an SSD.” Have you heard someone say that before? I hear it about once a week. I hear the great amazing things about Solid State Drives (SSD - there’s no moving parts so the “drive” part of it is historical or maybe I’m wrong and it stands for “device” now). I finally fell prey to the ribbing about still using spinning rust in my laptop. After doing some research I eschewed the advice of experts and went with the OCZ Vertex 2 128GB SSD.…